Just in time for Halloween, your list of 13 reasons bicycles make the perfect vehicle for the zombie apocalypse.

"Walking Dead" character known as Bicycle Girl because Rick Grimes grabs a bike for his getaway from her. | Illustration by Tom Carlton | Pixels.com | Terms

1. In every disaster movie ever made, everyone fleeing the city in a vehicle ends up in a huge, hopeless traffic jam, AKA zombie smorgasbord.

2. Bikes let you dodge around not only that big traffic jam but all the other debris left by the looters.

3. By the time you realize things are getting serious, your neighbors have taken all the gas and diesel, and you can’t refill your car’s tank.

4. Zombies are drawn to noise, and bicycles make for much quieter travel than the internal combustion engine. (Sorry, electric vehicle owners, but the grid is going to let you down about the same time people realize the petroleum fuel distribution system isn’t ever going to work again either.)

5. Bikes will retain their value as an item of barter in the post-apocalyptic economy.

6. You can carry more on a bike than you can if you’re walking/running.

7. Bicycles are the most calorie-efficient form of transportation. When you’re scavenging for food and eating cold canned beans, every calorie you find has to go a long way.

8. See them coming! No constraints on your field of vision caused by the vehicle’s body.

9. When you need to stop for the night, you can climb a tree and pull the bicycle up with you or bring it into the building you’re barricading yourself into. Either way, you have a vehicle you can hide from passing zombies.